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<p>[QUOTE="davidh, post: 513251, member: 15062"]As a matter of fact I have done it a number of times. For most of the things I had incontrovertible photographic evidence to back up my change, but there were cases where I only made reference to authoritatively published materials. I haven't re-checked all the submissions I made but the ones I did check still had the changes in place. There are also probably a hundred times I made spelling/grammar/logic changes without attribution and they all stood, to the best of my knowledge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Isn't this a little like the "Oh look at the fake being offered on ebay now, why doesn't someone do something about it?" argument? For a long time there were just complaints here, now there's action being taken. I'd like to think that the prodding I did on that subject resulted in it being commonplace now for CT members to make reports to ebay. If errors in Wikipedia were cited more often here I'd likely go on the same campaign, as I happen to like the site. </p><p><br /></p><p>When you see something that you know is wrong, your choices are 1. Sit back and do nothing but complain or 2. Do something about it. Personally, I prefer 2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="davidh, post: 513251, member: 15062"]As a matter of fact I have done it a number of times. For most of the things I had incontrovertible photographic evidence to back up my change, but there were cases where I only made reference to authoritatively published materials. I haven't re-checked all the submissions I made but the ones I did check still had the changes in place. There are also probably a hundred times I made spelling/grammar/logic changes without attribution and they all stood, to the best of my knowledge. Isn't this a little like the "Oh look at the fake being offered on ebay now, why doesn't someone do something about it?" argument? For a long time there were just complaints here, now there's action being taken. I'd like to think that the prodding I did on that subject resulted in it being commonplace now for CT members to make reports to ebay. If errors in Wikipedia were cited more often here I'd likely go on the same campaign, as I happen to like the site. When you see something that you know is wrong, your choices are 1. Sit back and do nothing but complain or 2. Do something about it. Personally, I prefer 2.[/QUOTE]
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